Criminology

a term denoting a new science, the branch of anthropology which deals with crime and criminals, Crinoidea, an order of radiate animals, mostly fo ils. The joints are extremely numerous, and the subdivision of the rays often very great. The disk is composed of calcareous pieces and fleshy integuments like the rays, as is also a stalk on which the whole is usually supported; the base, it is supposed, being fixed, and the disk and rays expanding like a flower.; Crinoline, originally, a horse-hair and cotton fabric for setting out a lady’s skirts. The modern crinoline, by that specific name, came into fashion in the United States, France and England in 1855.